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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01246572
Message ID:
01247243
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>I had created a series of constants to define image locations. The images are stored in different
>locations during development, in subfolders under the Media\UI folder. In runtime, all images will
>be dumped into a single folder called 'Graphics':
>
>
>#DEFINE IMAGE_LOC_RUNTIME	ADDBS(SYS(5) + SYS(2003)) + "Graphics\"
>#DEFINE IMAGE_LOC_DEV		ADDBS(SYS(5) + SYS(2003)) + "Media\UI\"
>
>#DEFINE IMAGE_LOC_BASE   	IIF(RUNTIME, IMAGE_LOC_RUNTIME, IMAGE_LOC_DEV)
>
>#DEFINE IMAGE_LOC_EFFECTS	IIF(RUNTIME, IMAGE_LOC_BASE, IMAGE_LOC_BASE + "Effects\")
>#DEFINE IMAGE_LOC_ARROWS	IIF(RUNTIME, IMAGE_LOC_BASE, IMAGE_LOC_BASE + "Arrows\")
>
>
>Using this technique, I have been able to use a constant when assigning graphics at runtime. The
>base image location is determined by either IMAGE_LOC_RUNTIME or IMAGE_LOC_DEV.
>
>Now the requirements have changed. The base location for the images will be configurable by the
>user.
>
>So the question is, how to I implement that here without going and changing all the places I'v
>used a constant?
>
>Thanks

Your solution may need to address pathing for workstation/applauncher users who may have a different mapping to the server... if not using UNC notation. Also, the "server" machine may be a user machine and their pathing to GRAPHICS folder may be different than that of the workstation users.
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